One of the women accusing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sex crimes appears to have worked with a group that has connections to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) — via abraham-ben-judea.newsvine.com
A male army officer, who lives as a woman with his wife and two children, has been locked in a battle to keep his job – as a female army officer.
Captain Matthew – now Bridget – Clinch, 31, plans to have a sex change operation next year after living as a woman for 12 months — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A French court will today declare whether who, if anyone, is to blame for the crash of a Concorde airliner outside Paris that killed 113 people more than 10 years ago.
Its verdict, after a four-month trial this year, will determine whether European engineers or a US company and two of its staff were responsible for the disaster, which sounded the death knell for the first era of suspersonic commercial flight — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Every community in the UK will gain access to super-fast broadband by 2015 under plans outlined today — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Nigeria made a major step toward demonstrating its commitment to addressing cybercrime by hosting the first West Africa Cybercrime Summit, attended by public and private sector organizations — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Microsoft executive’s self-described job of driving Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) into extinction will be difficult unless he can move Chinese users off the aged browser.
According to data from Web analytics firm Net Applications, 45.2% of China’s Internet users still rely on IE6 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The world’s biggest retailer already has tills ringing across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Now the sprawling Arkansas-based discount megalith Walmart is trying its luck in Africa.
South Africa’s labour movement is bracing itself for its biggest campaign since its anti-apartheid heyday as it faces up to the likely arrival of Walmart – a company notorious for its anti-union tactics, with annual sales worth three times the country’s budget — via dungbeetlemania.newsvine.com
Just a few hours after having its DNS servers terminated by a US company, WikiLeaks has anounced a move to a Swiss domain: wikileaks.ch. The domain is registered by the Pirate Party of Switzerland and it currently points to a single IP address in Sweden — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Crazy hills of San Francisco, originally uploaded by Håkan Dahlström.
The government’s secret listening post GCHQ could sell its technical expertise to the private sector under plans being considered by the government — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The US State Department has pushed employees toward digital diplomacy
with Twitter and iPhone apps, but the department has banned all employees from using WikiLeaks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Already under investigation by the Fair Work Ombudsman, Australia’s largest poultry manufacturer, Baiada, has now been cited by WorkSafe Victoria over the death of a contract worker at one of its plants — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Journalists union The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance has come to the defence of anonymous disclosure site WikiLeaks.
In a statement this afternoon, the union accused Amazon, which withdrew hosting services from WikiLeaks, of caving in to hysteria.
It follows the release by Wikileaks – which is led by the Australian Julian Assange – of a huge amount of diplomatic exchanges involving the US.
Federal secretary Chris Warren said: Amazon’s decision is extremely disappointing. We need to take a step back from the hysteria. It is not known whether WikiLeaks has broken any law. It has – via a free media – upheld the public’s right to know
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australia’s live sheep exports are facing renewed scrutiny, after animal welfare activists filmed graphic footage of the cruel treatment of sheep during an Islamic festival in Kuwait — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Foreign firefighting crews have begun to arrive in Israel to help battle a massive forest fire out of control in the north of the country — via redwolf.newsvine.com
African nations can break dependence on food imports and produce enough to feed a growing population within a generation despite extra strains from climate change, a study said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
At least 40 people have been killed and dozens injured in a huge forest fire in Israel — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Maintenance Truck, originally uploaded by redwolfoz.
South Africa has got to consider renewable energy, or risk being left behind. This was the message from a seminar held by Greenpeace Africa in Johannesburg on Wednesday morning — via dungbeetlemania.newsvine.com
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